Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2248378cdb3c02c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-03-04 13:55:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 1c6bc4174d6d0b660f80b3cae077eaef SHA-1: d23a961a51c96ce4d6e53c12998bb3886693be99 SHA-256: 2248378cdb3c02c646e58fd6bee26476d8e2570950242c5f52a71ebd6f422d2b
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains and hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO spam operation. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains keywords related to a motorcycle sale, suggesting a lure to attract users to malicious websites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://botokaw.ru/wix?keyword=honda+mb5+motorcycle+for+sale PDF link annotation
    • http://itawegan.fun/3347350567lwnsk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/duxadikoti/ihIEjbz/top_up_globe_prepaid_wifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microbladingcertificationdfw.org/noweludepovabujugizewx43x5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealicaufficiale.website/fofolirumatiziip8uz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notuvovezed.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382721/42eba527be92c8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vehicleinsusa.com/50313467606dt0av.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gubijebe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483267/7e5ef4b521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaxexuwolak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135978614/zulidemeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/buzaxelubot/dKYA9Ug/dmo_deejay_youtube_earnings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boost-shop.xyz/matthieu_ricard_altruismexder5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatholl.com/instant_academic_skillsvt0p8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/luzigagoguna/i7hejhF/52705268989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itdiscounts.info/75506285468emxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jijipidub/sii1hbq/hide_and_seek_japanese_voice_acting_practice_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lomasamube/icMlgcq/64929566350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rogolafu/bjccjck/samurai_ii_card.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/goworonol/Bn0jitJ/85374000860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vugasoveg/UhiljbA/derailed_2005_movie_trailer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zaviresodew/Khfjggg/the_sims_freeplay_download_ios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jowovodepavilim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134651336/maxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/maxanogefo/2xCgiqV/study_tips_for_college_students_in_kannada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begdas.space/what_do_the_different_colours_of_period_blood_meant1h35.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copriyghtconfirmed.com/kinds_of_adjectives_worksheets_for_grade_74yalj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD18 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 4131e8475a2f18061852d0b3a540514d43d0f866920363ea7ae5e133c7629f9c
font_01_sfnt_off0000efba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBA 9996 bytes
SHA-256: aea7697220eb7ecc84e847e2a5309bf84270fbedcb4fbe4d038f482a686e5c43